Chubby Checker

50s, 60s Hits

Lets Twist Again

Album:

Let's Twist Again
(1961)

Song Details:

"Let's Twist Again" is a song written by Kal Mann and Dave Appell, and released as a single by Chubby Checker. One of the biggest hit singles of 1961, it reached number two in the UK and number eight on the U.S.Billboard pop chart. It refers to the Twistdance craze and his 1960 and 1961 re-released single "The Twist", a UK and U.S. number-one single.

Lyrics:

Come on everybody!
Clap your hands!
All you looking good!

I'm gonna sing my song
It won't take long!
We're gonna do the twist
and it goes like this:

Come on let's twist again,
like we did last summer!
Yeaaah, let's twist again,
like we did last year!

Do you remember when,
things were really hummin',
Yeaaaah, let's twist again,
twistin' time is here!

Heeee, and round and round and up and down
we go again!
Oh, baby, make me know you love me sooooo,
and then:

Twist again,
like we did last summer,
Come on, let's twist again,
like we did last year!

TWIST! YO!

Who's that, flyin up there?
Is it a bird?
Noooooo!
Is it a plane?
Noooooooo
Is it the twister?
YEAAAAAAAHH!

Twist again, like we did last summer,
Come on, Let's twist again,
like we did last year!

Lyrics:

Every limbo boy and girl
All around the limbo world
Gonna do the limbo rock
All around the limbo clock
Jack be limbo, Jack be quick
Jack go unda limbo stick
All around the limbo clock
Hey, let's do the limbo rock

Limbo lower now
Limbo lower now
How low can you go

First you spread your limbo feet
Then you move to limbo beat
Limbo ankolimboneee,
Bend back like a limbo tree
Jack be limbo, Jack be quick
Jack go unda limbo stick
All around the limbo clock
Hey, let's do the limbo rock

la la la 56 + (instead of instrumental break)

Get yourself a limbo girl
Give that chic a limbo whirl
There's a limbo moon above
You will fall in limbo love
Jack be limbo, Jack be quick
Jack go unda limbo stick
All around the limbo clock
Hey, let's do the limbo rock

Don't move that limbo bar
You'll be a limbo star
How low can you go
( whistle for the rest of the song )

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Pony Time

Album:

Pony TIme
(1961)

Song Details:

"Pony Time" is a song recorded by Chubby Checker, his second US #1 (after his 1960 single "The Twist." "Pony Time" was also a number one hit on the R&B charts. The song introduced a new dance style, The Pony, in which the dancer tries to look like he or she is riding a horse. It was written by Don Covay and John Berry.

Lyrics:

It's pony time,get up
Boogety, boogety, boogety shoo

Hey now let's party with the union hall,
It's pony time when ya hear this call,
So get with it,
Don't quit it,
Get up.

Do the pony with your partner,
With a big boss line,
Well anyway ya do it,
You're gonna look real fine,
So get with it,
Don't quit it,
Get up.

Now ya turn to the left when I say gee,
You turn to the right when I say haw,
Now gee, ya ya baby,
Now haw, ya oh baby, oh baby, pretty baby,
Do it baby, oh baby, oh baby,
Boogety, boogety, boogety, boogety shoo.

Do the pony with your pardner,
Oh in a big boss line,
But anyway you do it,
You're gonna look just fine,
So get with, Don't quit it,
Come on. Eeeaaah

Now you turn to the left when I say gee,
You turn to the right when I say haw,
Now gee, ya ya little baby,
Now haw, ya oh baby, oh baby, pretty baby,
Do it baby, oh baby, oh baby,
Boogety, boogety, boogety, boogety shoo.

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Slow Twistin

Album:

Slow Twistin
(1962)

Song Details:

A 1962 duet with Dee Dee Sharp, "Slow Twistin'", reached #3 on the national charts.

Lyrics:

Baby baby baby baby take it easy
Let's do it right (Let's do it right)
Ar baby take it easy
Don't cha know we got all night (Um Um Yeah)
Cause there's no no twistin'
Like a slow slow twistin' with you

Yeah a little crazy motion
Is all you need (Just a little bit a room now baby)
Ar twist a slow devotion
You don't need speed (But it takes a lot of soul now honey)
Cause there's no no twistin'
Like a slow slow twistin' with you

Ar come on come on
And please me baby (Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Come on and tease me baby (Um Um Um)
Come on and drive me crazy (Come on now)
Come on and let's a twist it baby (Um Um Um)
Cause there's no no twistin'
Like a slow slow twistin' with you

Ar ya gonna last longer, longer
Just a take your time (round and round we go now honey)
Ar you're gonna feel stronger
And I feel so fine (Let's twist it slow now baby)
Cause there's no no twistin'
Like a slow slow twistin' with you

Instrumental

Ar come on, come on yeah
Ar come on, come on and please me baby (Um Um Um)
Come on and tease me baby (Yeah yeah yeah)
Come on and drive me crazy (Come on come on come on)
A twist it a take it easy baby
Cause there's no no twistin'
Like a slow slow twistin' with you
(Let's twist go now)

Ar ya gonna last longer, longer
Just a take your time (Round and round we go now honey)
Ar ya gonna feel stronger, a longer
And I feel so fine Yeah Yeah
Cause there's no no twistin'
Like a slow slow twistin' with you
Ar with you ar with you
Ar come on Ar come on....fading

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The Twist

Album:

The Twist
(1960)

Song Details:

"The Twist" is a song that gave birth to theTwistdance craze. The song was written and originally released in early 1959[1] by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters as a B-side (to "Teardrops on Your Letter") but his version was only a moderate 1960 hit, peaking at #28 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] The song, and the dance the Twist, was popularized in 1960 when the song was covered by Chubby Checker. His single became a hit, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 19, 1960 (one week) and then setting a record by being the only single to reach #1 in two different chart runs when it resurfaced and topped the chart again on January 13, 1962 (two weeks).

Lyrics:

Come on baby let's do the twist
Come on baby let's do the twist
Take me by my little hand and go like this
Ee-oh twist baby baby twist
Oooh-yeah just like this
Come on little miss and do the twist

My daddy is sleepin' and mama ain't around
Yeah daddy is sleepin' and mama ain't around
We're gonna twisty twisty twisty
'Til we turn the house down
Come on and twist yeah baby twist
Oooh-yeah just like this
Come on little miss and do the twist

Yeah you should see my little Sis
You should see my my little Sis
She really knows how to rock
She knows how to twist
Come on and twist yeah baby twist
Oooh-yeah just like this
Come on little miss and do the twist
Yeah rock on now
Yeah twist on now
Twist.